Things you were shockingly old when you learned

Also: "Unchained Melody" is a melody written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, hence the title.

I was shockingly old when I posted that itt a few weeks ago.

Pete and Repeat in Riverside Drowning Repost Shockah!

That the word cigarette just means 'small cigar'.

Yes; and "mandolin" means "small mandola."

It's easy enough to see that violin is to viola as mandolin is to mandola.

As an owner of multiple mandolins and mandolas, I was interested to find out that mandolas predate mandolins.

So "mandola" doesn't mean "big mandolin"; it's the other way round.

Also: "Unchained Melody" is a melody written for the 1955 prison film Unchained, hence the title.

I was shockingly old when I posted that itt a few weeks ago.

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.),

Huh, I did a ctrl+F and could only find the Old Lunch post I quoted. And that is still the case. Possibly my browser struggles with the size of thread, or could it be that it was posted in another one? No big matter, happy to yield ilx precedence on this one!

Turns out it was over here: This is the thread for unusual details in wikipedia articles.

(I enjoyed the factoid, both times around!)

Quite probably that's where I picked it up in the first place!

when "ghosted" became a big part of online vernacular I devised from context that it referred to killing a person, therefore turning them into a ghost. took like a year to realize it didn't mean that at all.

Wow, I admire your credulity at the level of murder casually taking place.

Iirc it has something to do with pottery wheels

The evil Nazi in Raiders of the lost ark is the same actor as the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder. WTF.

Ronald Lacey? He was creepy, insinuating or pathetic in so much British TV/cinema I'm surprised to learn he was only 55 when he died.

they've changed the legal marriage age to 18 in the uk (oh, england and wales only. so gretna green is relevant again). i figured i'd've heard about this before now.

It only happened today!

yeah, there were articles last april. but you'd think there'd've been more of a fuss.

Iirc it has something to do with pottery wheels

Yesterday I learned that pottery wheels were the first wheels ever invented, in ancient Mesopotamia, and it was [insert really long time here] before anyone had the idea of turning them sideways as a means of conveyance.

"Look at this, Ma!"

That sounds below the normal range of human hearing <20Hz are called infrasound.

Magnetic Field is Made of Photons

https://van.physics.illinois.edu/ask/listing/414

but a photon detector near a magnet won't detect anything...

The evil Nazi in Raiders of the lost ark is the same actor as the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder. WTF.

ha, incredible

Thora Hird was Mel Tormé’s mother-in-law for a decade in the ‘60s and ‘70s!

Despite having listened to it literally hundreds of times from the age of 12 and up, this morning was afaict the first time I realized that Led Zeppelin's "D'yer Maker" is just an exaggerated play on saying "Jamaica."

This is up there (or down there) with me somehow only recognizing "Rubber Soul" as a pun a few years ago.

I'm assuming it's from the extremely old joke about someone's wife going to the West Indies.

Yeah, I dunno! I think that's what I'd always heard, but I have no idea what the joke is. But I heard a DJ say it this morning and it just clicked. "D'yer Maker." "Jer-maker." "Jamaica."

Jokes you were shockingly old when you heard

It's:

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies
Jamaica?
No she went of her own accord

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies
Jamaica?
No, Turks and Caicos Islands

I forced my wife to go to the Caribbean
Jamaica?
That’s right, Jamaica.

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.
Jamaica?
Yes, but she Haiti’d it.

I called it Dyer Maker right up until the day I started doing night work at the classic rock station.

The callers on the request line called it the one that went OH Oh Oh-oh-oh Oh OH.

My wife went on holiday to the West Indies.
Jamaica?
Sure, put it on! I love Led Zeppelin!

(In fact we can listen to the whole album, the wife won't be back for a week)

No, we didn't even sign a non-disclosure agreeement

Other Zeppelin pun titles you might have missed if you didn't notice the apostrophe:

"No Quart 'er"
"Gallow's Pole"
"The Battle of Ev 'er More"
"The Rov 'er"
"Tramp 'led Und 'er Foot"
"Walt 'er's Walk"

"Bron-Y-Aur? I hardly know 'er!"

Little-known zepfact: John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell and it inspired "Stairway to Heavin'"

a fan that attended the drama program at Carnegie Mellon that Plant befriended on a US tour was the inspiration for "Danson Days"

The Jamaica in New York is etymologically unrelated to the Caribbean island

John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell

Just once?

The evil Nazi in Raiders of the lost ark is the same actor as the baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells from Blackadder. WTF.

― Stoop Crone (Trayce),

Because he looked slightly Asian to my 10-year-old eyes, I thought he was a Japanese ally of the Nazis lol. Of course, these countries didn't sign the Tripartite Pact for another three years.

I was 40 something years old when I realised that in this scene he's just a hat on a stick

Yup. My favorite RAIDERS cheat is how they dealt with an absent Ronald Lacey at the end of the truck chase. Looks almost like it’s just Toht’s hat and coat and not much else. pic.twitter.com/hmTV9wRMQj

— Charles de Lauzirika (@Lauzirika) June 14, 2018

Little-known zepfact: John Bonham once vomited in a hotel stairwell and it inspired "Stairway to Heavin'"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zxBiY0_BBw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgbC2qYzjQg

as it is De La Soul Day, I just realized Trugoy is yogurt spelled backwards.

Pos is Sound Sop!

as it is De La Soul Day, I just realized Trugoy is yogurt spelled backwards.

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, March 3, 2023 4:49 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao, nice find! i didn't know this either.

That Pictures at an Exhibition was actually written as a piano piece, and the orchestral version everyone knows was adapted by Ravel.